Here
Here The holy is right here in this moment. Linger here watching your daughter’s eyelashes flutter as she pulls you closer in her fairy dress and pearls, cups her little hands so softly around your ear, and whispers a magical secret. Linger here watching your son’s...
Make Time for Love
Make Time for Love Make time for love in your day amidst the hurry tackling the “to do” list always waiting for a pause to do what really matters but every night falling into bed exhausted, saying, “I’ll do it tomorrow.” Make time for love when you wake up gently...
Moments
Moments Tonight I needed to sleep with the windows open and hear crickets and cicadas to feel fall arriving soon to be reminded that nothing is permanent – hot summer days crickets, cicadas emptiness, fullness life, death you, me. Tonight I needed to sleep with the...
Returning to the Waters
Returning to the Waters It serves a soul every now and then to go completely off the grid, let our nervous system settle, reconnect with what matters most, unplug and allow ourselves to be nourished. It serves a family every now and then to drop the busy, reconnect...
Finally
Finally What would you finally have to feel if one evening after a long day you decided to slow down let the dirty dishes sit there in the sink or even on the counter stopped busying yourself with perfecting things that really don’t matter turned off the TV put down...
A Transforming Kind of Love
Take Me Take me, my Beloved. Take my lips and breasts and hips. Take me in to you, every cell of you. My flesh, your flesh. My strength, your strength. My heart, your heart. Take my embrace, my soft kisses, my caresses, my slow, rhythmical swirls. Let my arms be the...
When Certainty Arrives
When Certainty Arrives There is a moment when certainty arrives and you know, God you know, with every bone in your body, what you have to do. Though it seems crazy and illogical, though the voices around you cry out, “This makes no sense!” and question, “What if??”...
Let Go
Let Go By Lisa A. McCrohan There comes a moment when you know that it's time time to stop worrying, hurrying, grasping, trying, denying, analyzing every last possible permutation and let go. Simply open those precious, overworked, tightly clenched fists of yours and...
A love poem about the everyday kind of love…and saying yes
Several years ago, a friend invited me to her bridal shower. As we were going around sharing who we were, my friend introduced me as a poet and someone who "always has poetic words that inspire and nourish" her spirit. I was a bit embarrassed being the center of...
This is what love feels like
This is What Love Feels Like Laying down for a nap with my daughter curled up with my belly to her back my arms around her little almost three year old body little feet resting on my thighs rhythmic breathing deeply together we sleep sacred holy complete this is what...
Returning to the Great Grandmother
Do you tend to "tackle" the tasks and projects you do in a day? When you have a decision to make, do you try to force the right answer to come about? There's another way. My blogging buddy, Gina, over at Professions for Peace wrote a lovely and insightful post about...
Sacred Softening
Sacred Softening My body knows has always known my way back to God. I dance moving in slow sensual swirls under the vastness of a moon-lit night swaying until stillness fills every cell and there are no hard edges striving, panting, thinking only breath and heart....